A foreign friend of yours plans to visit your place and stay with you, but you do not have time on that date. Give your friend another alternate date to come. In your letter, you should: apologise for it explain how you will be busy on that date suggest to him/her an alternate time to come.

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Dear Kerat, I hope you are doing well. I received your email regarding your vacation planning in Canada. I beg your pardon for
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not being available on August 17th because of an emergency at my job. As you are aware
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I am currently working as
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Support Worker in a retirement home. Here, the staff has been decreasing
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the Flu season.
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, the hospital has been getting occupied with more patients every day.
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, please forgive me for
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inconvenience. The Nursing practitioner has assigned me three more shifts from August 16th to August 18th.
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, I have discovered it hard either to receive you from the airport or to arrange your travel to my nation.
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, after these days I will have a leave for two days from August 19th to August 20th.
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, it would be great if you could schedule a trip throughout these days.
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, I would really appreciate it if you
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stay at my place during the entire trip. I hope you
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and alter the dates of the tour. Warm wishes, Rajwinder Kaur Brar
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coherence cohesion
Ensure that each paragraph revolves around a single main idea to improve coherence and cohesion.
greeting and closing
Consider using a more formal tone in the opening and closing of the letter to match the context of the situation.

Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

Linking words are very important in your essay.

To score effectively on your IELTS exam, you should make an effort to implement short concise sentences coupled with linking words.

Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

  • firstly
  • secondly
  • thirdly
  • in additional
  • moreover
  • also
  • for example
  • for instance
  • therefore
  • however
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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